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<h1>Verb Practice Exercises</h1>

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<h2 id="part1">Vocabulary used in this section</h2>
Here is a list of a few verbs and the accompanying kanji that you will find useful.
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<br />I have listed the kanji you will need for the vocabulary for your convenience. The link will take you to a diagram of the stroke order.
However, it doesn't clearly show the direction (though you can kind of tell by the animation) so you should check with a kanji dictionary if you're not sure.
I recommend practicing the kanji in the context of real words (such as the ones below).
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<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?2544_%B8%AB">見</a> - see</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?3551_%CD%E8">来</a> - come; next</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?0212_%B9%D4">行</a> - go; conduct</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?0130_%B5%A2">帰</a> - go home</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?2075_%BF%A9">食</a> - eat; food</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?1692_%B0%FB">飲</a> - drink</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?2598_%C7%E3">買</a> - buy</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?2196_%C7%E4">売</a> - sell</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?0374_%BB%FD">持</a> - hold</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?0364_%C2%D4">待</a> - wait</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?1541_%C6%C9">読</a> - read</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?2416_%CA%E2">歩</a> - walk</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?2194_%C1%F6">走</a> - run</li>
<li><a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwhalsod.cgi?3142_%CD%B7">遊</a> - play</li>
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<br />Here is a list of some common verbs you will definitely want to learn at some point.
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<li>する - to do</li>
<li>しゃべる - to talk; to chat</li>
<li>見る【みる】 - to see</li>
<li>来る【くる】 - to come</li>
<li>行く【いく】 - to go</li>
<li>帰る 【かえる】 - to go home</li>
<li>食べる 【たべる】 - to eat</li>
<li>飲む 【のむ】 - to drink</li>
<li>買う 【かう】 - to buy</li>
<li>売る 【うる】 - to sell</li>
<li>切る 【きる】 - to cut</li>
<li>入る 【はいる】 - to enter</li>
<li>出る 【でる】 - to come out</li>
<li>持つ 【もつ】 - to hold</li>
<li>待つ 【まつ】 - to wait</li>
<li>書く【かく】 - to write</li>
<li>読む 【よむ】 - to read</li>
<li>歩く 【あるく】 - to walk</li>
<li>走る 【はしる】 - to run</li>
<li>遊ぶ 【あそぶ】 - to play</li>
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<h2 id="part2">Practice with Verb Classification</h2>
There's really not much to do at this point except to practice classifying verbs as either a ru-verb or an u-verb. You can also take this opportunity
to learn some useful verbs if you do not know them already. We'll learn how to conjugate these verbs according to their category in the next few sections.

<p>In the chart below, you should mark whether the given verb is either an u-verb or a ru-verb. The first answer is given as an example of what you need to do.
Obviously, verbs that do not end in 「る」 are always going to
be u-verbs so the tricky part is figuring out the category for verbs that end in 「る」. Remember that verbs that do not end in "eru" or "iru" will always be
u-verbs. While most verbs that do end in "eru" or "iru" are ru-verbs, to make things interesting, I've also included a number of u-verbs that also end in
eru/iru. You might want to refer to the <a href="verbs.html#part3">list of eru/iru u-verbs</a>. Though you do not need to memorize every word in the list by any means, you should at least memorize the basic verbs.

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		<td>出る</td>
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		<td>する</td>
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		<td>買う</td>
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		<td>売る</td>
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		<td>食べる</td>
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		<td>入る</td>
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		<td>飲む</td>
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		<td>しゃべる</td>
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		<td>見る</td>
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		<td>切る</td>
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		<td>帰る</td>
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		<td>書く</td>
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